Shoutbox

Well, I decided to open the board again... as many of you know, we were hacked today. I'm not going to go into detail about it at this time.

No serious damage or loss was suffered, probably because of wj's quick action. I was off watching TV when this happened, and didn't get online until a few hours ago.

We're trying our best to restore the forums back to normal and prevent something like this from happening again.

finally

gj to all who fix0rd it all up, i saw the forums in all glory and it was.. errr.. faily f00ked

Dunno whether it was fixed in the first place but when you were changing things like Poll dancer: to Poll: did you change Announcement: to Announcment:?

That would be a logical thing to happen if you just reverted to the mybb defaults...


Anyway, well done wj

Yep, we gotta give special thx to wj who acted very quickly
And lets not forget kaslo   who helped a lot too

And the temp admins ()

Well done wj. Nobodys safe on the internet nemore..........

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Originally posted by Chrono
kaslo

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* Stigmata still feels left out ....who are all these people

kaslo is quite similar to chromo

he's actually laslo, who is one of the mybb developers... he used to come here under another name but afaik that won't be mentioned here.

Yes, wj and Laslo's quick action is what prevented anything more disasterous from occuring.

Right now, its still being looked into, and we are tracing back the hacking.

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Originally posted by GiantSpider
Well done wj. Nobodys dafe on the internet nemore..........

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Was anyone dafe on the internet? If you have a good AV and Firewall you're safe or dafe for your average joe...Who wants to start a betting poll on what happened? My bet's on a possible mass-ping...but meh I doubt it was that...

oh and well done wj

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Originally posted by anubis_kree_
Was anyone dafe on the internet? If you have a good AV and Firewall you're safe or dafe for your average joe...Who wants to start a betting poll on what happened? My bet's on a possible mass-ping...but meh I doubt it was that...

oh and well done wj

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Do you even know what happened?   They didn't take down the forums, they got themselves admined and screwed around with the settings from there. 

There's 2 ways they could have done it... either they found an exploit in mybb, or they found a way to access the database.  The second one's more likely, because the IRC server was also hit, and it's possible that whatever exploit they used on there led them to get root access to this server too.

Only time will tell though